Sheet-assembling device



(No Model.)

J LARRABEE. SHEET ASSEMBLING DEVICE.

No. 592,548. Patented Oct. 26,1897.

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JOE LARRABEE, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

SHEET-ASSEMBLING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,548, dated October 26, 1897.

Application filed March 11, 1897.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOE LARRABEE, of Kansas City, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Type-W'riters Sheet-Assem bling Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to means for temporarily holding several loose sheets of material, such as the paper and interposed carbon-sheets used by type -writer operators, prior to their being placed in the writing-machine. In making duplicate copies the ordinary method of type-writer operators is to place a sheet of paper on a flat surface, a carbon-sheet on that, another sheet of paper, followed by a carbon-sheet, &c., until the requisite number of sheets has been placed. Then to take them up and jostle or trot them on their edges until said edges are even. This takes time, and also frequently crumples the carbon, so as to make blurred copies.

The object of my invention is to provide a device the use of which will obviate both of these difficulties.

- To these ends my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of my sheet-assembling device. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents an end elevation of the same.

Similar reference-characters indicate the same parts in all the views.

A suitable standard 1, having a base 2, preferably provided with rubber feet 3, has a plate l secured to its upper end, said plate being inclined downward toward the front and toward one end, so that one corner of said plate will be the lowest portion thereof. This plate may be of sheet metal or wood, as preferred, and the two lower edges thereof are provided with flanges 5 G, which are preferably ar ranged at a right angle to the plane of the Serial No. 627,044. (No model.)

plate 4. The rear edge of the plate is pro vided with a notch or recess 7, and a suitable retainer is employed, said retainer being represented in the drawings as consisting of a rectangular-shaped piece of Wire 8, having its ends bent inward toward each other and fitting suitable openings in ears 9, supported by the front flange 5. This retainer, when in use as such, rests in the position indicated in full lines in the drawings, and may be turned to the position indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 3 when the sheets are to be placed or assembled on the plate 4.

The use of my device is as follows: The operator drops a sheet of paper upon the plate 4, having previously turned the retainer 8 to the dotted line position. On top of said sheet of paper he then places a sheet of carbon, then another sheet of paper and of carbon, until the requisite number of sheets are placed. Each sheet as it is dropped on the plate or on the previously-placed sheet slides easily to an endwise and sidewise position, limited by the flanges 6 and 5, respectively. The operation of placing the sheet requires but one hand. Then the operator with but one hand takes hold of the assembled sheets of paper, the recess 7 enabling the sheets to be readily grasped, and transfers the sheets to the writingmachine. If the sheets are not to be immediately used, the retainer 8 may be laid down upon said sheets, and if, owing to any current of air, there is a liability of a located sheet being displaced while a sheet of paper or carbon is being taken from its box, the said retainer can be laid upon each sheet as it is placed with one hand, while the other hand selects the next sheet to be placed. The retainer may be entirely removed by simply springing the ends of the wire apart, so as to remove them from the ears 9.

I do not limit myself to the particular re tainer shown, nor the particular means by which said retainer is connected with the device, nor to the location of such connection, and said retainer may be directly omitted; nor do I limit myself to the particular degree of inclination of the assembling plate, as shown in the drawings, it being only essential that .the inclination shall be that the sheets of material will readily and naturally slide bot-h sidewise and endwise.

Having now described my-invention, What I claim is c 1. Asheet-assembling device com prising-in its construction a flat plate or bed having two flanges at a right angle to each other, and

means for supporting said plate in a sidewise and endwise inclined position with the angular corner of the flanges'at the lowest point.

2. A sheet-assembling device comprising in its construction a flat plate or bed having two flanges at a right angle to each other, and means for supporting said plate in a sidewise and endwise inclined position with the angular corner of the flanges at the lowest point, one of the higher edges of the said plate being recessed to facilitate, grasping the assembled sheets.

3. A sheet-assembling device comprising in its construction a fiat plate or bed having two flanges at a right angle to each other, means for supporting said plate in a sidewise and endwise inclined position with the angular corner of the flanges at the lowest point, and a movable retainer for holding sheets on said plate.

4. The combination with a suitable standard, of the inclined plate or bed having one corner lower than any other portion of its surface and provided with flanges 5 and 6 along its lower edges, and the retainer 8 pivotally connected with one of said flanges, substantiall'y'as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOE LARRABEE.

Witnesses;

F. D. HUToHINGs, J W. CowLETT. 

